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Hour.ca – Jul 20, 2006
He takes his cues from the strain of country music – the good one – that is being largely whitewashed away by nu-country. “That’s why I got into country music. There’s not a lot of good punk music any more so I just got into country. It speaks to me a lot more than new punk music. “The boys are at Quai des Brumes for two consecutive dates with a new EP in hand: Back From El Rancho which was written in the ebb of the touring.
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Broward New Times – Jul 20, 2006
0020 –>write to the editor | email a friend | print article | write your commentSouth of the BorderGuajiro shores up a Latin punk audience Castro excluded. By Jason BudjinskiPublished on July 20 2006Pop-punk ska-punk garage-punk goth-punk post-punk — is there any part of punk rock left to explore? Sure but it may come from outside the cultural lines of middle-class America. There’s a whole multicultural angle that’s been mostly untouched. And that’s where Miami’s Güajiro comes in… The kids just went nuts jumping on stage and singing along with us even though they had no idea what we were saying. And from there we’d play a show that same night at a regular club. The island’s really about to explode with this kind of music. ” However there’s one nearby communist island Güajiro won’t be visiting anytime soon. Hell their merchandise isn’t even allowed there. “ur friend mar recently went back to Cuba to visit his family” Lopez recalls. “He brought some Güajiro CDs T-shirts and videos but the customs agents stopped him.
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Broward New Times – Jul 20, 2006
0020 –>write to the editor | email a friend | print article | write your commentParanoid TimeDVD chronicles the life of the Minutemen. By Jason BudjinskiPublished on July 20 2006If the punk rock attitude is all about anarchy freedom and not living by other people’s rules then why is punk rock music the exact opposite? That’s a question the Minutemen’s Mike Watt has been asking for nearly three decades. Punk was already several years old by the time the Minutemen emerged from the scruffy Los Angeles-area harbor town of San Pedro. It was the dawn of the ’80s. The Sex Pistols were long gone; hardcore was all the rage. So when the Minutemen started mixing funk and jazz into their sped-up political punk slam-dancing and applause wasn’t the only response the band got — there was also quite a lot of spit.
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Miami New Times – Jul 20, 2006
“I was a Billie Holiday head. Then one night my wild roommate brought me to a punk club. I was fascinated by the whole culture so I became a punk. one of the three black punks in New York” recalls McCray who now goes by the name Sela V in the Miami music community. Sela spent her time at the legendary Mudd Club and CBGB: “I had my bleached blond hair and my Doc Martens and I was proud… one of the three black punks in New York” recalls McCray who now goes by the name Sela V in the Miami music community. Sela spent her time at the legendary Mudd Club and CBGB: “I had my bleached blond hair and my Doc Martens and I was proud. ” Eventually she put an ad in the Village Voice seeking musicians and began her own punk band Hands Through Glass. “I didn’t have pins through my ears. That’s a misconception… Subject(s):Residence Sela VAt the same time Andre “Soul” Williams a hip-hop and house music DJ was frequenting many of the same spots. Punk dance music and hip-hop were still young and seemed to have no trouble sharing an audience. “Clubs in the Eighties in New York were phenomenal” Andre says. “You could let your inhibitions go. ” Sela married and had two kids. She hung up her Doc Martens and moved to Miami with her husband whose work brought them here.
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Los Angeles Times – Jul 20, 2006
quartet who set their sights on playing straight-ahead rock music. What they developed over the past couple of years is a sound that counterbalances aggressive churning guitars against melody-rich piano lines. Their music largely the songwriting handiwork of singer-bassist Narek Pogosyan caught the attention of System of a Down’s Serj Tankian who signed the band to his own Serjical Strike Records and produced its eponymous debut (due Tuesday). “It was great working with him” keyboardist Erwin Khachikian says. “You imagine the lead singer of System of a Down being this really hyper guy but he was very calm all business. He’s the label president but at the same time he was producing the album and at the same time he was a friend of the band through all the usual drama. The quartet with Vigen Sayadian on drums and Rafik ganian on guitar plays tonight at the Troubadour… He’s the label president but at the same time he was producing the album and at the same time he was a friend of the band through all the usual drama. The quartet with Vigen Sayadian on drums and Rafik ganian on guitar plays tonight at the Troubadour. The Cops are coming Seattle quartet the Cops bring their convulsive punk rock back to the Southland next week (Monday at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach and Tuesday at the Scene in Glendale) continuing the build started with last year’s release “Get Good or Stay Bad. It’s a slow process concedes guitarist Michael Jaworski whose band (including John Randolph David Weeks and Drew Church) will begin recording a follow-up album — plus a split single with Cursive — when they wind up a West Coast tour. “In the grand scheme of things it’ll still be punk rock” he says. Suffice to say it will not be mall punk.